Parks & Facilities Directory | City of Corona

The Office of Economic Development | City of Corona

Commercial Cannabis Portal | City of Corona

Getting Involved | City of Corona

City of Corona | Home

Corona Power Outage Map | City of Corona

Contact Us | City of Corona

Non-Profit Organizations | Getting Involved | City of Corona

Not Found

Animal Services & Enforcement | City of Corona

Two adjacent links should not point to the same destination. You almost always want to combine the 
two links.

For example, it is quite common to link an image and text together like this:

```html
<a href="news.html">
    <img src="photo.jpg" alt="" />
</a>
<a href="news.html">
    News
</a>
``` 

These adjacent links should be combined like so:

```html
<a href="news.html">
    <img src="photo.jpg" alt="" />
    News
</a>
``` 

Links to `#` are ignored, as these are nearly always placeholders for JavaScript, e.g.:

```html
<a href="#" onclick="approve()">
    OK
</a>
<a href="#" onclick="reject()">
    Cancel
</a>
```

# Justification

Many users of assistive technology are only able to experience content sequentially - that is, they must
step through each part of the page, one part at a time. Often this is a slow process, potentially 
hampered by a physical impediment.

Stepping through redundant links is time consuming; for example users of a screen reader must 
hear each link read aloud in turn. 

This also simplifies your code. 

# Methodology

1. Find all links (`<a>` tags) on the page.
2. Ignore links pointing to `#`, as these are usually placeholders for JavaScript.
3. Flag links which are (a) separated only by whitespace and (b) which point to the 
   same absolute URL.  

# Learn more

Read about [Technique H2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H2) on how to combine
an adjacent image and texts links.

duplicate-adjacent-link

September 2025

August 2025

City of Corona

	Title / URL	Issues
	Parks & Facilities Directory \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/about-us/parks-facilities-directory	66
	The Office of Economic Development \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/departments/economic-development	6
	Commercial Cannabis Portal \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/businesses/commercial-cannabis-portal	5
	Getting Involved \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/departments/city-clerk/getting-involved	4
	City of Corona \| Homewww.coronaca.gov/	4
	Corona Power Outage Map \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/departments/corona-power-outage-map	4
	Contact Us \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/about-us/contact-us	4
	Non-Profit Organizations \| Getting Involved \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/community/getting-involved/non-profits	4
	Not Foundwww.coronaca.gov/invented-url-for-404-page	4
	Animal Services & Enforcement \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/departments/animal-services	4

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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